John Keats

"My love has made me selfish."

"If I die, tomorrow you might miss me hence."

"The only thing that makes life tolerable is permanent possibility."

"To believe is to change."

"I find that I cannot exist without poetry."

"The distance is nothing when one has a motive."

"A thing of beauty is a joy forever; its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness."

"The poetry of the earth is never dead."

"I am certain of nothing but the holiness of the Heart's affections and the truth of Imagination."

"Negative capability is when man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without irritably reaching after fact and reason."

"Call the world if you Please 'the vale of Soul-making'."

"Do you not see how necessary a world of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and make it a soul?"

"I have nothing to confess; I have done nothing to be ashamed of."

"Everything that happened to me is contained in my poems."

"The only means of strengthening one's intellect is to make up one's mind about nothing."

"I wish I could say Tom was here. I wish I could settle myself to philosophical thoughts; but images of the lost city swim before me."

"If my life is to be spared, I should like to do something."

"Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses."

"We hate poetry that has a palpable design upon us."

"There is nothing stable in the world; uproar's your only music."

"I think I shall be among the English Poets after my death."

"Give me books, fruit, French wine and fine weather and a little music out of doors."

"A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory."

"Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art."

"I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your Loveliness and the hour of my death."

"You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist."

"There is an electric fire in human nature tending to purify."

"I go among the Fields and catch a glimpse of a stoat or a fieldmouse peeping out of the withered grass."

"The reading of all good literature should produce excitement."

"I would jump down Etna for any great public good."